There is a t-shirt that says "Born in Maine, Living in Exile." I lived in "exile" (actually a very nice place) for 32 years, and returned to Maine in 2005. That's not necessarily what all this is about, just the only title I could think of at the time.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

By request: Vreneli, the lyrics

An anonymous commenter caught up with my Friday Five on Summer Camp from a few weeks ago and wants the words to Vreneli. I, too, was surprised at the non-presence of this song, which I've been singing for 53 years now, on the Internet, as far as lyrics went. Here's the lyric that we sing at Family Camp, to the best of my memory, and it's pretty much the same as I remember from Brownies:

10 comments:

I love that song! The only difference is that at family camp we say "Oh that," she said, "I gave away..." instead of kind sir. But that is probably what you sang in brownies. good job on writing out all the Yo Ho Ho's, I would have gotten bored!

Used to sing this as part of the BBC 'Singing Together' radio broacasts in around 1980-ish. The only different lyrics I can remember are 'My home it is in Switzerland, its faith will not depart. May help jog a few memories out there.

This brings back memories. I coached my sister who is 2.5 years younger than me to sing this song for her 7th grade talent competition. She won. I think it was because she sang both the Alto boy's voice part as well as the Soprano girl's voice part. I hope to get the music somewhere so we can sing it to her at her retirement part of Feb. 29, 2012. She is retiring after 30 years of service in the State of Washington. She was 12 years old when she sang this song. She still sings, but not as well as then.